Track Listing

1. Walking the Floor Over You
2. It's Been So Long, Darling
3. Rainbow at Midnight
4. Drivin' Nails in My Coffin
5. Have You Ever Been Lonely (Have You Ever Been Blue)
6. Slipping Around
7. Driftwood on the River
8. Two Glasses, Joe
9. Half a Mind
10. Thanks a Lot
11. Waltz Across Texas
12. Sweet Thang - Loretta Lynn, Ernest Tubb

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #138544 in Music
• Released on: 2000-02-08
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
The 20th Century Masters series is the best-selling single-artist line in music history and is being re-released by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) in its ground-breaking, environmentally-friendly packaging format. A first for the music industry, the standard package (both sleeve and tray) will be completely paper-recyclable, continuing the company's long-standing commitment to being "green."

To further reduce the amount of paper in the Eco-Pack, the CD booklet will no longer be offered. Official liner notes are easily accessible on the Internet at http://www.ilovethatsong.com/green.

UMe is the first North American music company to replace the traditional jewel case with recycled paperboard sleeves and the plastic tray with trays made from PaperFoam®, a new packaging technology from Shorewood Packaging, a business of International Paper, that is paper-recyclable and biodegradable. Shorewood Packaging is the first North American packaging supplier to produce disc trays from PaperFoam®.

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Customer Reviews

Good CD-The Original Recordings !
This is a dog gone good cd. These are the original recordings remastered. Obviously the person who was dissapointed has never heard or grew up listening to remakes of songs Ernest made later on. But for us Country music purists this cd is excellent.Keep in mind that Tubbs peak period was the 1940's. He scored his biggest hits on Billboards Country chart during that period. Hits from him were more sporadic in the 50's,60's and 70's.As far as the quality-back in those days everything was mono and they didn't have the sophisticated equipment in the studio like they have today. If you wanna hear ET the way his records sounded when they were originally released get this cd today. This is ET at his best !

This one is a disapointment.
Remember those great Ernest Tubb hits from the radio and juke boxes, well not many of them made it to this release. Most of these are NOT the ones your used to hearing, I dont know where they came from, maybe they were demos, or an earlier version, but they are not the ones that made him a legend. They sound like they were recorded in garage as well. The only ones that sound like the original to me are "Thanks Alot, and Sweet Thang".

A Legend
Here is a solid compilation of Ernest Tubb; a true Legend of Country & Western Music. Folks, Ernest Tubb was authentic, and that is what music is all about.....especially Country Music. Noone did more for Western music than ET, and his contribution to true Honky Tonk will never be measured. The fact that he gave us Jack Greene and Cal Smith are enough, but his own style of doing a song changed our music forever. This album is just another great release by 20th Century Masters; and the recordings are original. In fact, you may think they are too original....as a few of the original scratches and fuzz still exist. Of course, this album contains "Walking the Floor" and "Waltz Across Texas", but even more impressive is the inclusion of "Drivin Nails" and "Two Glasses Joe"; as well as one of the first true male/female duets of "Sweet Thang" with Loretta (Conway had nothing on ET). a truly enjoyable listen.